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‘Doctor X and I discuss chest pain’ — Poems in the Waiting Room

I’ve just finished judging the Poems in the Waiting Room competition for 2013. (See http://waitingroompoems.wordpress.com/) Any literary competition sets a number of constraints: the pre-eminent one here is the intended destination of the winning poems, which will appear in leaflets … Continue reading

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Journalese

The Burns Fellowship has turned up some unexpected requests lately. One was from a woman I’d never met who wanted advice on how to read an ee cummings poem at her brother’s wedding: the request was passed on to me … Continue reading

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